I want to get into music production, what are some resources I can use?

[SunnyWolves]

I am basically a total newbie to music, but I want to begin making tracks. Particularly ones in genres such as chiptune, electronic, and dance. What would be some good resources to help me begin?

 

[Suzuki Hoshi]

i dunno

 

[SunnyWolves]

i dunno

Then why reply? I don't mean to seem rude, but you don't have to reply to a thread if you can't help out with the issue or take part in the discussion.

 

[Suzuki Hoshi]

Then why reply? I don't mean to seem rude, but you don't have to reply to a thread if you can't help out with the issue or take part in the discussion.

i was really thinking about it but if i said "look up a tutorial" or "get an fl studio trial" that wouldn't be helpful at all

 

[SaKe]

I am basically a total newbie to music, but I want to begin making tracks. Particularly ones in genres such as chiptune, electronic, and dance. What would be some good resources to help me begin?

There's a channel called hana130p that has some great videos breaking down the styles of various japanese artists! It seems a little cheesy at first but it helped me a lot. For chiptune stuff there are a ton of VSTs for replicating the SNES sound style (Plogue has a cheap one, can't remember what it's called), but for the most 'authentic' sound you'd want to use a tracker + the actual sound files used for older consoles, which you can find here! Massive is also pretty good for chiptune (MARETU uses it, specifically the SmoSqu preset).
This is a list of some free music theory and ear training sites and stuff. A lot of it is just audio engineering things you probably already know, but some stuff on there looks helpful.
pro tip (not really lol): if you want to make utau vocals just record yourself singing your lyrics and then use the synthv auto midi tool. it sounds lazy but it's soooo much easier than making it from scratch.

 

[Kiyoteru]

This is a master post of software and resources that I've collected for songwriters.

Songwriting Resources

Before you can begin, you'll need a piece of software to do all of your musical work in. Somewhere you can have multiple tracks of audio or sequenced MIDI notes, where you can apply effects and have everything musically in time. This is a Digital...

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